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	'<{title}>' => 'I really need to pay more attention to what mode my camera&apos;s in.',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2016/11/26.jpg" alt="An actual cellular telephone that does actual telephone things" class="framed-centred-image" width="811" height="480"/>
<section id="general">
	<h2>General news</h2>
	<p>
		Yesterday, I was a bit frustrated about the closing shift for today being added to my schedule, but I had forgotten one key fact.
		Only opening shift workers and closing shift workers are put on tills.
		Today&apos;s shift was very easy, and I even made a few tips.
	</p>
	<p>
		On my way to work, I tried to snap a more interesting photograph, but I didn&apos;t notice until I got home that my camera had been in the wrong mode.
		It&apos;s too dark now to try again.
		In any case, it gave me a chance to post a photograph on my new government cellular telephone.
		I meant to post a photograph the first day that I got it, but then I ended up going to the grill, and that photograph was more time-sensitive because I don&apos;t go there often.
		The next day, I saw that mariachi band.
		Next, I took an hours-long trip to the bank, my mother crashed their vehicle into a deer, and I took a trip to Gresham.
		The first day that I had little enough going on that I could choose the telephone as my daily image was yesterday, but at that point, I&apos;d completely forgotten.
		I only even remembered today out of desperation, unable to choose anything else.
	</p>
	<p>
		Anyway, as you can see, it&apos;s nothing overly special.
		With how it functions, I fear that it can&apos;t even be unlocked.
		It&apos;s one of those devices that keeps track of the minutes used on the device itself.
		In other words, if you can bypass that somehow, you&apos;d probably have unlimited minutes, but if you don&apos;t bypass it and you take it to another network, it&apos;d likely shut itself off permanently after it gets used too much.
		I&apos;ve red that such a bypass is possible, and at least in the past <strong>*did*</strong> allow one to get unlimited minutes on the Tracfone service.
		However, I can&apos;t be sure if that issue is still present today.
	</p>
	<p>
		I found an awesome song about <a href="http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/snowflake/54422">President-elect Donald Trump</a> today, calling them a living nightmare.
		<a href="http://ccmixter.org/files/snowflake/54422">Lyrics</a> are also available, though on another page.
		The song is available under the {$a['CC BY 3.0']} license, so feel free to download and share it!
	</p>
	<p>
		My <a href="/a/canary.txt">canary</a> still sings the tune of freedom and transparency.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="include.d">
	<h2><a href="https://git.volatile.ch./y.st./include.d/releases">include.d</a></h2>
	<p>
		I&apos;ve updated all of the exception codes in include.d, though the ones in the $a[URI]-handling code may very well change as I develop the $a[API].
		That code really isn&apos;t stable right now.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="university">
	<h2>University life</h2>
	<p>
		I finished up the main reading assignment, then took the ungraded and graded quizzes.
		I took the ungraded quiz several times to try to improve my score and become more familiar with the questions.
		On two different quiz attempts, it/ oddly asked the same question twice, word for word.
		I think that the question randomizer needs some work.
		Next, I posted my discussion posts for the week:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			The restaurant at which I work is a franchise, so for the most part, we just do things the way that the corporate company tells us to.
			However, one area in which we have done testing, measuring, and optimization multiple times is our dough-making process.
		</p>
		<p>
			In an attempt to make the dough come out better, we experimented with what order we put the ingredients into the mixer.
			It seems ridiculous, as the same ingredients in the same proportions should make the same dough, but we found some interesting differences.
			If we put the oil in first, then the flour, then the yeast solution, the oil and flour cake on the sides of the mixer.
			This makes cleanup a pain.
			This caked oil and flour doesn&apos;t end up in the dough that we use, but doesn&apos;t seem to make any visible difference.
			Additionally, if we put the liquids in first and put the flour on top, the dough takes longer to mix and doesn&apos;t come out as well.
			To get the best and fastest dough along with the easiest cleanup, we need to put the flour in first, then the liquids.
		</p>
		<p>
			We&apos;ve also had problems in the past with our dough swelling up (rising) too much, especially in the summer.
			We tried moving the dough to the walk-in refrigerator faster, though that didn&apos;t seem to help.
			We&apos;ve also tried using less water, which made a big improvement.
			What seems to help the most though is storing the yeast in the freezer while we&apos;re making dough, only pulling it out just before we use it.
		</p>
		<p>
			Especially in the first case, when we changed the order in which we added the dough ingredients to the mixer, the results weren&apos;t optimal at first.
			We ended up with bad batches of dough and had to use them anyway.
			However, what we learned made work easier and improved the quality of future batches.
			In the case of the over-risen dough, we didn&apos;t get optimal results at first, but at least we didn&apos;t make things worse.
			In the end though, we did get optimal results in both cases.
			Experimenting and measuring are important tools for optimizing any task.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Is it legal for you to withhold overtime pay like that?
		</p>
		<p>
			The rewards system for timely work seems like a great idea!
			Adding commissions for getting work done also seems like an effective solution.
		</p>
		<p>
			A while back, we introduced a new menu item to the menu at the restaurant at which I work.
			No one liked to make the new menu item, and almost none of us liked the way that it tasted.
			Furthermore, upselling to customers is just plain rude.
			The owner of our franchise wanted us to all suggest to our customers that they try our new menu item, but almost no one was actually doing that.
			One day, the owner decided to try offering a commission on them.
			Each time that any of us sold that menu item to a customer, the owner would give us \$0.25 $a[USD].
			It wasn&apos;t a whole lot of money, but it was enough to get several employees that weren&apos;t upselling to start!
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			How did you make sure that workers actually met the productivity expectations that you set for them based on the time studies?
			Time studies are great, but when using them to decide how many people to hire, you need to find a way to make sure that the help that you hire will actually get the work done in practice, not just theory.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Preventing the employees from making personal calls using the company telephone line sounds like a great idea! The telephone bill dropped significantly, that&apos;s true, but it&apos;s not the only benefit.
			When employees are making personal calls on company time, the company&apos;s having to pay them without them actually getting any work done.
			Labor hours are another concern to worry about; employees should spend their time when clocked in actually helping the company succeed.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		Lastly, I did my essay-grading for the week.
		I should have started on my essay, but I&apos;ll leave that for tomorrow.
	</p>
	<p>
		I received this feedback from my professor on a homework assignment:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			You have provided a good example of your professional experience.
			I understand that you do not like to identify a person in your writing with a singular pronoun; however, you need to because it is a grammatical error and make reading your assignments a little difficult.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		Clearly, my professor doesn&apos;t understand why I use singular &quot;they&quot;.
		It has nothing to do with a desire not to use a singular pronoun, but a refusal to use a <strong>*gendered*</strong> pronoun.
		I suppose that I&apos;ll start using the word <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Spivak_pronoun">&quot;ey&quot;</a> in my assignments for this course when a singular pronoun is required then.
		It&apos;s worth noting though that singular &quot;they&quot; is no less grammatically-correct than singular &quot;you&quot;.
		Both have been used in English for centuries.
		However, the singular form of the word &quot;you&quot; is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Thou">&quot;thou&quot;</a>.
	</p>
</section>
END
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